The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-02-08

order to en- Ter the merchandise at the
proper custom house."
10 considering the bills submitted
to him, Secretary Manning Gays that
he is extremely reluctant to discuss
any bill which after debats has been
adopted in the Senate by vote al
most unanimous, and that he does 30
only from the point of view of the
h. ad Of the Treasury Department, to
wuich will be committed the execu-
ton of a proclamation issued by the
President under the proposed measure
if it shall become a law. eft" he
says, "the Senate bill shall bscome a
law, and The Presiden; shall is US his
proclamation thereun6 er, besides put
ting an end 10 the transit traffi ,, its ef.
tect will BIS to exclude from importa.
ton Canadian free goods, such
as certain kinds of FIJI, lum-
Der, animals, etc, to the amount OF
alb out e, 100000 annually and a SO of
reducing the revenue by preventing
the importation of Canadian dutisble
products such as lumber, breadstuffA
fish, ETC., in annual value, say S22,-
600, 000-.o the extent of about IA, 000,-
600, which will be probable duties
collectable on such goods during the
present fiscal year il the present sys-
tenn of intercourse shall continue"
He recommends that there be no
unnecessary ambiguity in the law,
aud il locomotive, railway rolling
stock and cMs are to be excluded,
under any circumstances Congress
should say 20 in explicit terms, and
all vehicles containing or carrying
merchandise should be distinctly ex-
cluded, if that be the will of Congress.
In conclusion, Mr.. Manning says:
at is much to be regretted that me-
dievsl tariff laws, ike that cruel leg
acy of war which still encumbers the
statute books of the United s ates, or
medieval non intercourse policy,
like that of the Dominion of Canada,
approved by the Queen in council on
the threshold OF Her Msjesty's jubilee
year, should be the divided disgrace Of
our common civilization. Both are
obstacles to that enisrging freer inter-
course among the heir', by kindred
blood, of one great heritage OF social
order, language, laws and civil liberty,
which, leading here and promoting
everywhere, from century to century,
the increasing progress of the
human race. The venerated
founders of this Republic
contributed to that progress its most
powerful and we'll directed impetus by
Withholding from the Federal Gov
eminent authority to fetter the foreign
commerce OF the people with any ex-
port tax and by enscting an absolute
free trade forever among the inhabit-
ants Of all its States. The new world
which swept in.o their ken was
was a world of American freemen
whose laws should but establish and
guard their individual liberty. Had
the most northern colonies, aHticipat-
ing then the inevitable hour, along
with us, cut off and releast 10 her
then cefor,h separate and iDsular for
tunes the parent State, the whole con-
tinent of North America, ftom sea to
sea, and from its northern TO its
southern CULTS, would now be j1ined
in one iDdissoluble union of lode
structible Stats, and the political line
oil the forty-ninth parallel of latitude,
with the geographical boundary OF the
five great lakes and their river, instead
of being marked by suspicious reve-
nus officers and hostile cu.to1,
houses, would be Invisible like the
Tooth meridian and another bond Of
unity like the waters of the Missis.
sippi. 10 such a wider dominion, in
such a greater, enduring union,
finally by peaceful growth, with cor
dial union strained assent, for com.
mon interests, soon or late these now
separate peoples, discordant or divided
by political lines, but kindred by every
tie that ever has united men or found
ed States, will one day merge their
majestic empires. 1t behooves the
ststesmenship Of our own and coming
generations on either side of the
dividing line, to perceive that this
continental and imperial policy is not
visionary hope, but rather in the
order OF nature, to which the laws,
that we in our brief time enact, had
best conform and give it furtherance.
The subject OF this policy, therefore,
even when repelliIg aggression svow-
ing this common duty and ultimate
destiny, even when responding to an
offensive non-intercourse policy, by
offensive acts which at any moment
we are more anxious to withdraw from
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